There is a lot to like about this film, unfortunately it sabotages itself from a technical standpoint from time to time.
First off the story is pretty original and well set up. Without getting too spoilery, the hick, redneck occupants of, yes, A Trailer Park, meet an untimely end. Their zombie corpses however make life hell for travelers thru their tiny neck of the woods and in the case of this movie, those travelers would be a group of lowlife teens coming thru town on a Christian Camp Excursion.
The characters are all at the very least decent and pretty well fleshed out, there's some decent skin although not overly sexual. The gore is fun, as are the kills. Much more of a comedy than the standard horror movie, the trailer park aspect is really played to the hilt as zombie rednecks reek havoc on the wayward teens.
When the movie clicks, it's really quite fun. There's a pretty awesome zombie dismemberment that had me rolling and perhaps the greatest amputation scene ever that had me cringing and belly laughing at the same time.
The problems in the film are a slight drag about midway thru as well as some really bad selections. At times the editing is so frenetic that it's hard to tell what's going on and even so, is headache inducing. There are so many characters that you don't really get all that into the main hero(s) because so many other kids have to be dealt with. There's very little tension building as it goes from point to point without much drama as to if or when someone is gonna be killed.
Some minor complaints, and while no means a great horror movie it does provide enough chuckles and winces, with an original enough take on the genre to be worthy of a watch. You'll have fun.
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